Method of growing tobacco



June 14, 1927. 1 ,632,241

G. H. MALOTT METHOD OF GROWING TOBACCO Filed Dec. 9 1926 Patented June 14, 1927. e

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

METHOD or GROWING TOBACCO.

Application filed December 9, 1926. Serial No. 153,655.

My invention relates to improvements in suckers and as. they grow they take the nourmethods of growing tobacco, and the object ishment from the adjacent leaf preventing of the invention is to devise a method by its growing to its full size and at the same which a plant will have a healthier growth time spoiling the color of the leaf.

and therefore the leaf grow to a larger size By trimming the upper leaves oil as above and of better color, and in which the laboridescribed and permitting the surplus sap ous slow operation and stopping to remove to pass into the head this sucker growth is the suckers from the plant and the expense obviated. According to the old practice incident thereto is dispensed with, and it when these suckers form the whole field has H consists of the steps hereinafter described. to be gone over and the suckers removed Fig. 1 is a view of a tobacco plant shown by hand. When the suckers have been. re

at the stage where the seed pods are formed. moved the sap for a time nourishes the leaves Fig. 2 is a similar view to Figure 1 showand permits them to grow normally until a ing the plant with the upper leaves adjacent new sucker forms when the growth of the 1 the heads formed by the seed pods trimmed leaf is again retarded until the whole field flj has been goneover and the new suckers re Fig. 3 is a view showing the matured moved. It Wlll thus be seen thatby my plant with the head removed. method th1s very laborious operation which Fig. 4t is a similar view to Figure 3 showhas to be repeatedly performed during the 2 ing the upper end of the stem of the plant growth of the plant is obviated, this operasuckering or sprouting. tlon being particularly laborious for the In the drawing like characters of referreason that the suckers grow all down the ence indicate corresponding partsin each plant not only from the upper leaves but figure. those adjacent to the ground.

l is the stem of a plant provided with After the trimming of the leaves by my leaves 2 and a head 3 at the upper end of method as above described the plant is then the stem 1 carrying the flowers and seed allowed to grow to maturity at which time pods. the head is then removedas shown in Figure W hen the plant has grown to the stage 8, the sap continuing to nourish the leaves where the seed pods are formed some of the of the plant and any suckers which then upper leaves adjacent the head 3 are grow will spring from the upper end of the trimmed off as indicated at t in Figure 2. stem at the point where the head has been By this means the sap rising in the plant removed as indicated at 5 in Figure 4, therecontinues to nourish the lower leaves and by filling the stem of the plant full of sap the surplus sap passes up the stem and so that it will. be in a proper condition for through the trimmed portion thereof into curing. the head and is thereby utilized to nourish hat I claim as my invention is: the head instead of forming suckers or A. method of growing tobacco consisting shoots which grow from the stem at the of first allowing the plant to grow until the base of each leaf when the head of the plant head and seed pods are formed, then trimis removed in the early stages of its growth ming off some of the upper leaves adjacent as is commonly the practice. to the head whereby the surplus sap passes Vv'hen the head is removed from the immainto the head, then allowing the plant to ture plant without trimming first as is grow until maturity and then heading off the now done the sap instead of passing into the plant.

head causes the growth of these shoots or GEORGE HENRY MALOTT. 

